Update on Ryûichi Hiroki’s IT’S ONLY TALK (YAWARAKAI SEIKATSU) 「やわらかい生活」, starrin

Ryûichi Hiroki’s It’s Only Talk (Yawarakai seikatsu) is scheduled to be screened at the Yurakucho Asahi Hall (Yûrakuchô Asahi Hôru) in Tokyo on Wednesday November 23rd at 15:30, as part of Tokyo FilmEx 2005 (Dai-6-kai Tôkyô Firumekkusu).

As was reported here on Twitch back on May 22nd, the screenplay for It’s Only Talk was written by Haruhiko Arai, based on the novel Ittsu onrî tôku by Akiko Itoyama. The movie stars Shinobu Terajima (she’s also in Jun’ya Satô’s Yamato (Otoko-tachi no Yamato) and Takashi Minamoto’s Until the Lights Come Back (Daiteiden no yoru ni)), Etsushi Toyokawa (he’s also in Takashi Minamoto’s Until the Lights Come Back (Daiteiden no yoru ni), Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Loft (a.k.a. “Shi no otome"), and Takashi Miike’s The Great Yokai War (Yôkai daisensô)), Shunsuke Matsuoka (he was in Satoshi Miki’s Kame wa igai to hayaku oyogu), Tomorowo Taguchi (he’s also in Shûsuke Kaneko‘s God’s Left Hand, Devil’s Right Hand (Kami no hidarite akuma no migite), Kentarô Moriya’s School Daze (Sukûru deizu), Takashi Minamoto’s Until the Lights Come Back (Daiteiden no yoru ni), Mitsuo Yanagimachi’s Who’s Camus Anyway? (Kamyu nante shiranai), and Shion Sono‘s Strange Circus (Kimyô na sâkasu); he was in Ataru Oikawa’s Einstein Girl (Ainshutain gâru) and Taiichi’s Death Make - one of the half-dozen hour-long movies in the Kazuo Umezu’s Horror Theater (Umezu Kazuo: kyôfu gekijô) series), and Satoshi Tsumabuki.

Here’s a synopsis for It’s Only Talk from the website of the international sales agent for the movie, Gold View Y.K. (Y.K. Gôrudo Byû): “Yuko is 35 years old, single, out of work, and on medication from her psychiatrist to combat her manic depression. Living in Kamata Town (’not an ounce of chic’, according to her web page), Yuko divides her time between a variety of men friends, each with his own peculiarities. Her university classmate, Homma, suffers from impotence. ‘K’, whom she meets on the net, is a self-confessed pervert. Then, there is a young gangster, Yasuda, who is a fellow manic depressive. Her cousin, Shoichi, is also on the scene, having left his family to pursue his mistress, only to be given the cold shoulder by her, too. ¶ Yuko seems to create a different persona (and a different history) depending on whom she is talking to at the time. Human contact is just as important for her as for anyone else, but sometimes her condition makes it difficult for others to relate to her for as long as she would like.”

Tokyo FilmEx 2005: It’s Only Talk (English)
Tokyo FilmEx 2005: It’s Only Talk (Japanese)